Belt-fastener



(l lo Model.)

G. W. SOUTHWIGK.

BELT FASTENEB.

No. 431,175. Patented July 1 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. SOUTHWICK, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.

BELT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,17 5, dated July 1,1890.

Application filed $eptemher 6, 1889, Serial No. 828,124. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WV. SOUTH- WICK, of Stamford, in the countyof Fairiield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and ImprovedMetallic Belt-Fastening, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved metallicbelt-fastening, which is very simple and durable in construction,securely fastening the ends of the belt together and preventing breakingof the belt across the fastening.

The invention consists of a plate provided on each side with alternatelong and short arms having spurs.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details andcombinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, andthen pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 isan enlarged sectional side elevation of the same on the line 50 a: ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the improvement. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the same, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of thesame.

The improved metallic belt-fastening A is provided with a plate 13,having on each side B may be provided on each side with any desirednumber of alternate long and short arms. In fastening the ends of a belttogether the ends are joined, as shown in Fig.1, and then thebelt-fastening is placed over the two ends and driven into the same,after which the projecting spurs C and D are clinched on the under sideof the belt. One, two, or more such fastenin gs may be placed across thebelt, the number depending on the width of the belt. hen the fasteninghas thus secured the ends of the belt F, the spurs C and D pass atdifferent points through the belt, so that when a strain is exerted 011the belt it does not come in a straight line across the belt on thefastenings, but at different points, so that in case the strain shouldcause breaking of the belt at one of the prongs C orD the break does notextend to the next long or short prong across the belt, and consequentlyavoids a continuous break crosswise of the belt, as would be the case ifthe apertures had been made on a line across the belt, and not atdifferent points, as is done by this fastening.

The short non-clinehable spurs E dropped between the two clinchablespurs do not extend entirely through the belt, thereby avoiding thebringing of too much metal to the under side of the belt underneath theplate; but they embed themselves in the belt, so that when the spurs Cand D are clinched or bent onto the belt on each side of the same theshort spurs E serve to relieve the strain upon the clinched spurs, andalso prevent the clinched spurs from being drawn out of the belt whentensile strain is exerted.

Having thus fully described my invention, 1

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A metallicbelt-fastening consisting of a plate provided at each end with arms ofunequal length, having downwardly-projecting spurs on their ends, thelong arms at each end being opposite the short arms at the other end,and vice versa, and short spurs at each end between the said arms,substantially as herein shown and described.

GEO. W. SOUTI-IWICK.

W'itnesses:

J AS. M. HENLEY, C. SEDGWICK.

